Some of Today's Pranks

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 3:23pm

A chain of events from today...

1. Early this morning, the stage managers for the production of Cinderella I'm in decided to e-mail the technical director with an absurd request involving something about wanting 36 live doves in the production.

2. The designer, realizing that this was a prank attempt, wrote an e-mail to the two stage managers and somehow made it look like it came from the director. In it, he wrote that we had new rehearsal periods for several hours on Saturday night and Sunday night. One of the stage managers, believing the e-mail, earnestly sent out the "new schedule" to the whole cast with her apologies.

3. A cast member, realizing that the aforementioned schedule was a prank, e-mailed the stage managers and director with an emotional e-mail stating that she couldn't handle all the stress and was quitting the show. (Sadly, the stage managers fell for this, as well. They were hit by two pranks, and the one prank they tried fell flat).

4. The cast has decided that we are all going to show up to rehearsal in sandals and flip-flops (which is strictly prohibited for the sake of safety) and bring shoes to change into after they all have heart attacks.

5. I'm a stepsister. My sister, mother, the Herald are blocked to get into a struggle in the middle of the ball. We've decided to make it appear that this is going to cause injury tonight. I'll write more on how that goes.


~ Unconnected prank: I've been telling people all day that I was arrested in a bar last night for drinking underage. Obviously, people don't know me as well as I thought they did, as a surprising number have fallen for it.


So what have you guys been up to today?

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 3:34pm

My teacher pretended to give us a quiz, but we all knew it was April Fools Day.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 3:37pm

Wow, ~FF~, seems like a busy day for you! I have been home all day, so the extent of April Fools-ing in my life was my sister trying to tell my dad that it was supposed to snow. It didn't work.

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 3:48pm

I managed to trick a friend into thinking I finally got some last night.

Also, I was working on my LJ, and I noticed that when you hit the publish button, the staff did something to have it say "Processing whining." My God, did that make my day.

[commasplice]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 4:00pm

http://www.onmilwaukee.com has some great fake headlines.

Later, I'm going to call my mother and tell her I'm going out with the cab driver that asked me out a couple weeks ago. That's the only thing I can think of that would fool someone.

"Also, I was working on my LJ, and I noticed that when you hit the publish button, the staff did something to have it say "Processing whining." My God, did that make my day. "

I just checked that.. hilarious! Also, Brad's mock letter. It reads just like the emails I get from the company presidents.

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 4:14pm

My professor this morning put a note on the door saying class was cancelled. Wheather or not it was a joke is beside the point. We all went home anyway. :)

[Plum]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 4:31pm

Well, there was something involving eyeballs and milk crates (don't ask), and my roommate's econ professor gave an entire fake lecture. Other than that, though, most of the pranks I've seen have been online- Google, Broadway.com, etc.

[ckeaton]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 4:55pm

I called my mother and told her that my wife was pregnant... It was mean, I know.

Posted: 4/1/05 at 4:59pm

This is a cute internet one. Put it on his site and sent it to Matty.
Click Me

[Liam]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 5:17pm

my parents gave me soure milk!

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 6:30pm

Did they really, Liam? If so, that's horrible!

[Liam]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 6:31pm

yes.yes they did,


THEY DO THE SAME TRICK EVRY YEAR AND I ALWAYS FALL FOR IT!

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/1/05 at 6:35pm

Well, then that's your fault, I guess.

But it is still mean. Where do they get it from?

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 4/2/05 at 12:41pm

To follow up...

- Most of the cast showed up in sandals. It was great

- I made up a story about how the night before, a guy I knew made out with a random girl in a bar in front of a girl that was quasi-dating him. They agreed to go along with it. They even staged a fight. The whole cast was believing it. It was great. I kept wanting to say, "Dance, Puppets, DANCE!"

- During the struggle in the ball scene between the stepsisters and the Herald, we did indeed fall down. The other stepsister jumped on the Herald's back. He purposefully fell backward, dropping her and knocking me over. The other actress has known wrist problems, and I have known back problems, so we acted like we were both badly injured and played up our own potential vulnerability. They all fell for it and it was glorious. :)

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 4/2/05 at 1:02pm

walks up to chorus teacher "Mr S could u sign my passbook" hand him pen...shocks him literally...pretends to switch pen to a real on but dont and gets him twice in a row

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 4/2/05 at 1:17pm

Another follow-up: Someone posted on Backstreets.net that Bruce Springsteen was coming out with an iBoss iPod. SO many people fell for it. Beautiful.